The South has always been a difficult place to deal with, even during the Sui Dynasty. This issue must be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. The main reason is that the North and South began to split from the Three Kingdoms period. Originally, the Jin Dynasty unified the world.
, was a very good opportunity to bridge the relationship between the North and the South, but the Jin Dynasty later also split, and this split lasted for hundreds of years.
When the former Sui Dynasty unified the world, they adopted a policy of appeasement towards the south, hoping to slowly influence them and integrate them. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was more radical. He wanted to kill all the Sinicized Guanlong Hu people in the north, and then move the people from the south
Come to the north.
As a result, Yang Guang died first.
Since Li Zhiyun came to the throne, he has also adopted a conciliatory attitude toward the south and given certain preferential treatment, so that he can concentrate on solving the Turks, the Guanlong people, and suppressing the Shandong gentry. Now the empire is running well, and those who should be suppressed have basically been suppressed, leaving the rest
Yes, he is going to touch the south.
This time, we must let them know what it means to be afraid!
"It's so strange." Fang Xuanling walked on the road, stroking his beard and wondering: "The saint conducted such a high-profile investigation, isn't he afraid that someone will spread the news back to the south, and nothing will be found?"
Du Ruhui whispered: "You don't really think that the saint will only send those few people to investigate."
"you mean?"
Du Ruhui nodded lightly, "If my guess is correct, His Majesty's spies have already rushed to Jingzhou and other places. You must know that the news this time was not sent by the censor."
Fang Xuanling nodded, then frowned and said, "But if we really get to the bottom of it, this is a big earthquake. How many officials will be implicated?"
"There are many three-legged toads, but two-legged people are everywhere. Shandong nobles and Guanlong people have been waiting for this day." Du Ruhui said meaningfully: "Sages know the way of balance. These
The suppression of the Guanlong people in 2006 forced them to hold their heads high, and they were not merciful to the Shandong gentry, and had long intended to make them relax a little."
Fang Xuanling understood, and immediately held up his hands and said: "Thank you for clarifying the confusion."
"No, if you go ahead, remember to be careful and don't get involved with others."
"I see."
Li Zhiyun has always understood that he cannot keep suppressing the Guanlong people. He has to give them a little sweetness and then slap them. Let them divide internally, create internal discord, and fight among themselves. The best solution is to let them
They become weaker due to internal friction. Otherwise, if you keep suppressing them, sooner or later the string will be broken.
This time when investigating the south, he asked Yu Zhining and Wang Gui to serve as spies and secretly rush to the place to investigate. In addition to them, there were also people from the Xuanyi Guards under Li Zhiyun. There were three lines in total, one open line and two hidden lines.
Neither knew the other existed.
When dealing with aristocratic families, it is naturally more convenient to use aristocratic families. The Guanlong people and the Shandong gentry have lived a miserable life in recent years. Only a few people have been reused, and most of them have been left out in the cold for one reason or another. This time, they have an opportunity.
I won't let it go.
After all, they can see that the empire is obviously not like the former Sui Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty is more powerful and richer than the Sui Dynasty. Emperor Li Zhiyun is not as crazy as Yang Guang. As long as the emperor continues to cut flesh with soft knives, they will have to surrender sooner or later.
.Besides, the emperor is so young, who dares to continue to waste time with the court?
Just be quick and bow your head as soon as possible.
In the past, if the people of Guanlong wanted to bow their heads, they had to wait and see whether the emperor would give them a chance to bow their heads. For example, Yu Zhining, who had stayed in the same position for more than ten years. Now that he finally got this opportunity, he naturally would not give up.
Even if he would be hated by other Guanlong people because of this, he didn't care.
"Now, the imperial inspection envoy should be on the way here. We have to hurry up, otherwise when the news comes back, those people will take back their feet."
In an inn in Jiangling City, Yu Zhining said this to Wang Gui.
Wang Gui nodded in agreement, "Next, you and I will split up. I'll go to Anzhou."
"I'm going to Suzhou."
After reaching an agreement, the two of them dispersed.
Once this case is raised, it will not be a big deal, it will definitely be a major case. And Yu Zhining's purpose is to raise this major case and increase his political achievements.
The big families in the south naturally include Xiao, Chen, Yu, Lu, Shen and others. They control most of the waterways and canals, and have good farmland and fertile forests. They are the richest people in the world. During the Sui Dynasty, the world was
chaos, south
Although there is chaos, it is basically due to the internal strife in the south, that is, the aristocratic families do not deal with each other, but support each other's rivals and take advantage of each other. For example, Xiao Mian of the Xiaoliang royal family, and the rebellious bandit Lin Shihong, etc.
In terms of damage, the South is far inferior to the Central Plains. The Wagang bandits in the Central Plains have wreaked havoc and caused far more damage than the South.
Therefore, although their losses were there, they were definitely not very big. In addition, after the imperial court pacified the South, it basically did not touch the interests here. The South was still governed by Southerners, and stability was paramount.
Because of this, the southern families have always looked down on the northern people, always thinking that they were poor and barbaric. In addition, they did not invest in Li Tang in the early stage. As a result, after entering the new dynasty, there were very few central officials who were from southern families.
Only because of this, they will not do stupid things. After all, as long as they stay in the south and become local rich people and pay taxes on time, the court will not really kill them.
But the problem is that in recent years, the southern families have found that they are getting poorer and poorer!
To put it simply, as the imperial court, regardless of the life and death of slaves, built cement roads on a large scale, built bridges and opened rivers and canals, the trade between the north and the south was far more frequent than before in the Sui Dynasty.
From this, they discovered that the products shipped from the north to the south were all more expensive, more useful, and more difficult to manufacture. All the profits were eaten up by the people in the north, and they could not get any share of them.
Moreover, the prices of rice, herbs, porcelain, silk and other items they shipped to the north were completely incomparable with those there. They wanted not to buy them, but they couldn't stand the word "true fragrance", so they could only play some evil tricks.
For example, smuggling, bribing officials to lower the price of northern goods, or directly blocking roads and robbing.
Anyway, in this place, they just say the same thing!
Suzhou Lufu.
Lu Wan carefully took out a stack of rice paper from the study room. Touching the indescribable touch, his heart was about to explode with joy. This level of good paper can only be found in Guanzhong, and can only be bought there. It is a genuine piece of paper.
"Luoyang paper is expensive". I don't know how many Jiangnan scholars could not get a piece of paper and were willing to spend a lot of money to purchase it.
As a member of the Lu family in Suzhou, Lu Wan naturally coveted this thing. However, this thing was completely priceless and had no market. If he wanted to buy it, he could only wait for merchants in the north to buy the goods before shipping them over for purchase.
That’s it, you can’t buy it yet!
This is really not alarmist, but a fact. According to unreliable information that Lu Wan learned, there is a quota for how much each merchant can take from this rice paper every month, and no one can take more!
He actually inquired about the companies that could get the goods, and came to the conclusion that behind them were dignitaries from the DPRK and China.
In this way, he gave up the plan of directly communicating with the people behind the other party and instead took advantage of the local people.
As for the advantages, it's hard to say.
In short, he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, because the rice paper was sold at a sky-high price here, and the grain they sold to the north was really cheap.